The Clashing Channel Scan Add-In provides the ability to quickly show Co
and Adjacent Interference in cellular phone communication networks. This
tool is specifically designed to work with sector layers created with the Sectorization
Add-In.
Open the file or choose the Run command from the Start menu, and
browse to the clashing-channel-scan-addin.exe file in the folder where you
downloaded the file.
Click OK and follow the step-by-step instructions to install the
add-in.
*The Clashing Channel Scan add-in works only with
latest version of Maptitude
To Use the Clashing Channel Scan Add-in:
Open a map that contains a sectors layer created with the
Sectorization Add-In. Make this layer the
working layer.
Choose Tools>GIS Developer's Kit>Add-Ins
and click Clashing Channel Scan to open the Clashing Channel Scan dialog
box.
Choose the field that contains the antenna channel
value in the drop-down list.
Enter a channel number in the Channel
to scan edit box.
Click Scan. Maptitude will show all
sectors that are in the channel you chose (N) in red, all sectors
that are in the above channel (N+1) in blue, and all sectors that are
in the below channel (N-1) in green.
Click Close to close the Clashing Channel
Scan dialog box. You will be prompted to choose whether or not
to keep the colors that you just applied.